General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most Eminent Persons of All Ages, Countries, Conditions, and Professions, Arranged According to Alphabetical Order, المجلد 7

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الصفحة 1 Richard was placed with an excellent classical scholar, who had been second
master of Eton school; and in 1689 he was sent to complete his preliminary
studies at Utrecht, under the learned Graevius. After residing there for three years
, ...

الصفحة 53 M. MERCIER, Josias LE, son of the preceding, a learned critic, made himself
known by an edition of Nonius Marcellus ; and by notes on. Aristaenetus, Tacitus,
Dictys Cretensis, and the treatise of Apuleius de Deo Socratis. He died in 1626.
he ...

الصفحة 105 At the bottom of each page are the various readings, in two columns; with the learned editor's judgment upon most of them, notes, and sometimes long and
curious dissertations. To the whole are prefixed learned prolegomena, treating of
the ...

الصفحة 114 His “Octavius” was for a long time attributed to Arnobius, and published as an
eighth book of his treatise “Adversus Gentes;” but in the year 1560, Francis
Baldwin, a learned lawyer, published it by itself at Heidelberg, and was the first
who ...

الصفحة 178 One of the sons obtained a grant of lands and the title of count of Montezuma
from Charles V., and founded a noble family in Spain. Moreri. Robertson's Hist, of
America.-A. MONTFAUCON, BERNARD DE, a very learned and industrious ...

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الصفحة 308 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...‏

الصفحة 107 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.‏

الصفحة 379 - ... a powerful ever-living Agent, who being in all places is more able by his will to move the bodies within his boundless uniform sensorium, and thereby to form and reform the parts of the universe, than we are by our will to move the parts of our own bodies.‏

الصفحة 379 - ... them; and that these primitive particles, being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.‏

الصفحة 379 - And these things being rightly dispatch'd, does it not appear from Phaenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent, who in infinite Space, as it were in his Sensory, sees the things themselves intimately, and thoroughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself...‏

الصفحة 329 - There is a spirit which I feel, that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end : its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty, or whatever is of a nature contrary to itself.‏

الصفحة 379 - ... that the smallest particles of matter may cohere by the strongest attractions, and compose bigger particles of weaker virtue ; and many of these may cohere and compose bigger particles whose virtue is still weaker ; and so on for divers successions, until the progression end in the biggest particles, on which the operations in chemistry, and the colours of natural bodies, depend, and which, by adhering, compose bodies of a sensible magnitude.‏

الصفحة 329 - It is conceived in sorrow, and brought forth without any to pity it ; nor doth it murmur at grief and oppression. It never rejoiceth but through sufferings; for with the world's joy it is murdered.‏

الصفحة 329 - Its crown is meekness, its life is everlasting love unfeigned; it takes its kingdom with entreaty and not with contention, and keeps it by lowliness of mind. In God alone it can rejoice, though none else regard it, or can own its life.‏